Plan display

Chief priest exhibition of the Meiji period that built the foundation of the Dewa Sanzan Shrine

In Dewa Sanzan looked up at as Haguro god deified in three shrines in Kumano district size honorific title of a Japanese god of the mixture of Buddhism and Shintoism to last by the gods and Buddha separation of "thing God as the honorific title of a Japanese god" or the Meiji more than 1200, it was in a mountain of God. When Dewa Shrine ranked among the votive offerings made by a provincial governor small company in March, 1873, Nishikawa (Nishikawa)Suka (I do it)male () of a few 35 years old from Saga took up its new post as the first chief priest. The gods and Buddha separation of the Hagurosan which advanced only slowly is pushed forward more intensely than this and rapidly until now.

Because eight chief priests built the foundation in the first generation in Nishikawa chief priests for approximately 50 years equal to the dawnlight (the dawn) period as for the Meiji period, it was devoted. I look back toward Dewa Sanzan at the time through ji* of the chief priest of the Meiji period in this year equal to the 151st year from the Meiji era.

◎Period from Saturday, April 27 to Saturday, November 30

◎Opening time from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

◎Admission fee 300 yen for adults/high school, university student 200 yen (free of charge lower than a junior high student)

＊"Coming over issues a common entering a building ticket with the culture Memorial" (500 yen) during from June 29 to November 25.

◎It is without holiday in July, August every Thursday (in the case of a holiday, I am opened) on a closed day